1. a. Of weather, etc.: = INTEMPERATE a. 1.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. cxxiv. 353. In Castyle there is but harde rockes and Mountaynes,… and an vntemperate ayre.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VI., 137. Of these vntemperate stormes rose suche a scacety, that wheat was sold at iii.s. iiii.d. the busshell.
1614. Archdeaconry of Essex (MS.) Minutes, fol. 101. [The weather] was wett and vntemperate.
b. Distempered, disordered. rare–1.
1539. Elyot, Cast. Helthe (1541), 17 b. [To] the bodyes untemperate, suche meates or drynkes are to be gyven, which be in power contrary to the distemperance.
2. = INTEMPERATE a. 2.
1388. Wyclif, Ecclus. xxxi. 23. Colre … and gnawyng to an vndiscreet either vntemperat [C. C. Coll. Camb. MS. vntemperaunt] man.
1561. T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., I. xiii. 43 b. [They] that do delite in an vntemperate desyre of speculacion.
1589. Cooper, Admon., 2. A lamentable state of time it is, wherin such vntemperat boldenes is permitted.
1607. Markham, Cavel., II. 101. If the Ryder haue an vntemperate hand, which euer pulleth … vpon the horses mouth.
a. 1633. Cary, Edw. II. (1680), 16. The King, by his untemperate and undiscreet actions, had lost the hearts of his People.
3. = INTEMPERATE a. 3.
a. 1589. Palfreyman, Baldwin’s Mor. Philos. (1600), 116. Youth vntemperate, and full of carnall affections, quickly turneth the bodye into age.
1592. Nashe, P. Penilesse, G ij b. Vntemperate venerie, and that hatefull sinne of selfe-loue.
1613. Sherley, Trav. Persia, 55. Hee that can restraine himselfe from being transported by vntemperate appetites.
1625. Shirley, Love Tricks, II. ii. I would not leaue Rufaldo for a world of rash, vntemperate youth.
Hence † Untemperately adv. Obs.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. clxxxviii. (Bodl. MS.). Wyne drinkinge vntemperatlych is to man kinde … venym.
1548. Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. John, ii. 14 b. When their geastes … haue their mouthes out of taste, & powre in drinke vntemperately.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 237 b. They hearde also howe vntemperately the Freers that were collocutours handled the matter.
1602. Segar, Hon. Mil. & Civ., IV. i. 209. He that immoderately and vntemperately pampereth his own body.
